Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short aria that has a repetitive rhythm and a simple style.
- noun The final section of an aria or duet marked by a quick uniform rhythm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A song in rondo form, with variations, often having an accompaniment in triplet rhythm, intended to imitate the footfalls of a cantering horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short, rhythmically repetitive
aria .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her observations about art are generally trite and when she does say something more specific, such as "an aria without a cabaletta is like sex without an orgasm", one is more stunned by the apercu's vulgarity than its accuracy.
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Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann.
Categorical denials Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Dr. Kissinger apparently doesn't appreciate the considerably rousing power of the traditional cantilena-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera.
Unlikely music critic of the day Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Dr. Kissinger apparently doesn't appreciate the considerably rousing power of the traditional cantilena-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera.
Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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She sang the cabaletta "Di tale amor" with good trills and clean runs, though at a moderate tempo.
Archive 2008-07-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008
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She sang the cabaletta "Di tale amor" with good trills and clean runs, though at a moderate tempo.
Gypsies, Nobles, and Nuns Lisa Hirsch 2008
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Madame Viardot-Garcia, finding the phrase of the cabaletta in the aria
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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